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Visual styles - Inventor Tutorial

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Visual styles

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- [Voiceover] The other visualization technique you have as a designer is to apply a specific visual style to the model. Right now, we're in the default Shaded mode, and we can make changes to that at any point during the design process. There's a couple ways to do that. We can either go to the View tab, and select the Visual Styles dropdown, or what I prefer is to use the Visual Styles button on the navigation bar, here at the bottom. It's the same icon with the same information, but it's readily available on the navigation bar, rather than always having to go back to the View tab. If you don't have this button, you can use the arrow at the bottom right corner to enable Visual Styles by simply clicking on it. What Visual Styles do are allow you to quickly change the overall look and feel of all the parts in the model. Right now, we're at the default Shaded mode. If we select Shaded With Edges, you can see that we still have the same shading, but now the edges are more pronounced…

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